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's several hundred feet underground. rescuers had to use rope and rigging to rescue the victim. the confined space required crews to use protective gear and masks and continually monitor the air. the rescue worker was taken to the hospital with nonlife threatening injuries. >>> more trouble tonight for vincent gray. mayor vincent gray, over allegations he gave a man a high-paying city job in exchange for a tax on then mayor adrian fenty. tom sherwood has more on the revelations inside a council committee hearing today. >> reporter: sulaimon brown watched monday as a d.c. council committee heard testimony that mayor vincent gray's campaign and office staff from unusually interested in getting brown a job. independent inspector general charles willoughby said the mayor's chief of staff asked him in january to meet with brown. willoughby did. but he said no mayor's office has ever made such a request before. >> you're talking about from people from within the d.c. government? no, i have not been asked. >> reporter: reuben charles, a leader of both gray's campaign and transition, confirmed he wa
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Mar 23, 2011
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. culpepper up to 64 degrees. the rest of us will see the temperatures rise. stuck in the clouds. only 43 in hagerstown. even with that cold air you're still going to be talking about some strong thunderstorms that will come on through. we could see potential for some strong winds as well as some hail. we'll continue to keep you posted right here. >> a powerful storm system leaving its mark across the country. here's the scene in central iowa. at least a half dozen tornadoes hit the area. everything from funnel clouds to golf ball size hail left a path of damage in five different counties. that same system caused major problems throughout north dakota. sleet and snow made driving conditions treacherous there. it is just early evidence of a pretty rough start to spring. >>> we have some breaking news in the murder of two men in maryland within days of each other. what are police announcing? >> reporter: we received some shocking details about this just a short time ago. you'll remember that two homicide victims, one was found dead in his home. an 81-year-old man last friday. another man sh
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sri lanka after winning a lottery and a trip to the u.s. with work privileges. they moved in with his uncle. who was working in his yard on bantry way when he heard the shots. >> he was alive at that moment. so he was alive. and then i was trying -- he was trying to tell something it looked like to me. but i don't know. after that, someone called 911. >> reporter: this is the second murder in olney in less than a week. last friday evening they found an 81-year-old dead at his home in the 19500 block of olney hill road. police now say it was a homicide, that mr. ahmed was fatally shot. police are investigating to determine if there's aink between these two shootings. >> at this time our detectives are trying to determine if there was any relationship between these two individuals, who on the surface would appear not to have a relationship. so this does take time for detectives to sift through what possible link there might be between these two murders. >> reporter: now, at this hour, police have no suspects, and no motive in either of these murders. they want the public's help. witness
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think this will be a conversational snow for us. with some accumulation between a trace and 2 inches. the chance for snow from 4:00 a.m. sunday to 3:00 p.m. on sunday. that's the way it's looking right now. the road temperatures should be fine. so, again, a conversational event, but this is really one that will be affecting sunday, not so much saturday. and in terms of your fast forecast, again, we're fine for the evening, chilly sunshine come you aring our way tomorrow. so we'll talk more about that weekend and how cold it's going to be on sunday, as well as your detailed snowfall amount map taking you into various neighborhoods. back to you. >> okay, thanks, veronica. >>> our team coverage continues. julie carey is at the tidal basin where people are bundling up and bracing for the cold air and blossoms. hey, jules. >> reporter: as everybody knows, et cetera all about the picture down here. all about that photograph. and what's wrong with this i can picture? we're all wearing our winter coats. still, it seems even this cold snap, the prospect of snow this weekend can't chill people
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in the district, officials tell us 6,604 couples have applied for marriage licenses. that's more than double the number of applications submitted in 2009. >>> well, a brisk afternoon with temperatures down into the 30s. >> chief meteorologist doug kammerer joins us. so doug, is it going to warm up any time soon? >> do you remember 64 degrees yesterday? >> we remember. >> it was beautiful out there yesterday. what a difference a day makes. temperatures dropped from a high of 64 yesterday to 27 this morning. take a look at the numbers out there this morning. this is what you woke up to in hagerstown. 19. frederick down to 18 degrees. 25 in sterling. 25 in manassas. so when you woke up and you walked out the door this morning, you definitely felt the chill. right now, temperatures much colder than they were yesterday. by about 20 to 25 degrees. 38 degrees currently in sterling. 39 in manassas. 39 in quantico and towards the waldorf and la plata, as well. mt. airy coming in at 37 degrees. satellite and radar showing mostly clear skies all day, but now we're starting to see some high clouds move
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us. >> veronica johnson is tracking the changes. >> it's going to drench us in a big way. we're talking about a system coming into the area wednesday night, staying with us throughout the day on thursday. so that's just 24-hour period where we could have moderate and heavy rain coming down. because of that potential for heavy rain, there's a flood watch up. the national weather service starts tomorrow evening. it runs through thursday evening. the only areas not in it is through charles county, st. mary's and calvert county. i think everyone will be in either a flood watch or flood warnings. especially in the north up around frederick and loudon county that had the heaviest rain with the last weather system. where some of that heavy rain is coming through missouri and illinois right now. tennessee, too. and low pressure right now, a storm system back in southwestern missouri. it's snowing on the other side of it where there's some cold air. but for us, mild evening it is. 42 degrees. by 9:00, overcast skies. we are going to be dry this evening. and really dry for most of the
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the patients deserve the best. >> it's time for us to walk a line, and if it means walking the street and going on strike to take care of our patients, then you know what, you'll be seeing a lot more of these lines over the years. >> reporter: while national nurses united is organizing is work action, they were joined by others in organized labor. teamsters, iron workers, transportation unions were all represented. >> they're fighting for middle class standards of living and middle class working conditions across the country. they're fighting for patients here. all of us are fighting for patients right here. >> reporter: not all of the union nurses were on strike. 100 or so crossed the picket lines, and the hospital has brought in replacement nurses. hospital officials say it's about making nurses here comparable to other area hospitals in terms of salary and benefits. >> our -- what we call our differentiation, extra pay for night and weekends, was out of proportion to what is paid around the rest of the hospitals. and we sat down with the union and we said we need to make some correction in t
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that a tip would lead us to a successful conclusion of this case. >> reporter: task force members say aaron to hhomas was already a short list of potential suspects. once the tip came in, investigators followed thomas in new haven, connecticut where he was living with his girlfriend and 5-year-old son. they grabbed a cigarette butt he discarded and matched its dna to the evidence taken from the many rapes. on friday, thomas was arrested. fairfax county detective john kelly who was applauded for his years of work by task force members got to give some of the victims the good news. >> there were significant outbursts of emotions and, as we recognize these are lifelong pain and injury here, and they're just extremely happy we're going to have accountability. the answer of who is this question. >> reporter: investigators are also certain there are other victims who have not yet come forward. that's why they are reactivating the website with the hope others who have encountered thomas will offer information. >>> and coming up up at 6:00, a look at the prosecution ahead and what it is likely aaro
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Mar 1, 2011
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with the delay of it being reported to us as a missing person, we've had to kind of play catch-up as well. but we're trying to get as much leads as we can, talking with family members, looking at the area, and trying to find out what her reasons for disappearance may be. >> reporter: investigators do know that her car was left behind, found in the parking lot outside of her apartment. the sheriff's office also says her husband is currently overseas serving the army based in afghanistan. gonzalez says up until a few months ago, he always saw the 4'11" decker walking up the stairs in the building. he says he heard a lot of arguments coming from her apartment upstairs. >> sometimes like it sounded like at midnight they were having problems. almost every night. >> reporter: with limited leads and evidence, authorities are not ruling anything out, including foul play. but at this point the sheriff's office would like to speak with her husband. >> he has been here in the country on leave, and was with miss decker back in january. and so we need to come up with a timeline as far as their contact with ea
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've released them. the bomb squad is on the scene. they're using a remote controlled robot to get close to the explosives. many who have been evacuated are senior citizens and they're standing here waiting for it to get back to normal. i can tell you a few moments ago, the vehicle that they bring in to place any suspected explosives safely inside there and transport it somewhere else, that vehicle came in a half-hour ago. it left a few minutes ago. so i don't know at this point whether or not that mean that their spraying concluded. when we get more information, we'll bring it back to you. >> thanks. >>> a missing pregnant woman's family is making a play tonight to help find their daughter. she's been missing for a month now and relatives stay last person to see her alive was her husband. now he is in the war zone and police want some answers. john schriffen is in ashburn virginia with today's developments. >>> the family says this is certainly unusual behavior for their daughter to go missing for week at a time. spefkly, they say their daughter had just paid for her spring semester at
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's not checkbook. >> thank you, liz. saving us again gnome . >>> let's get a final check on the weather that's going to be a change at the end of the week. >> that's right. we know gas prices are going higher, grocery prices going higher, but the weather forecast still free. 65 degrees outside right now. things changing over the next couple days. we told you last week, this is going to be a tough week to forecast, because depending on where you are, really depends on those temperatures, as well. 65 right now in the dc area, winds out of the south at 1 miles per hour. it's in the 70s to our west and that is helping to keep some of these thunderstorms alive. a lot of lightning with these making their way through west virginia and now into virginia. so down towards culpepper, back coordinate washington, front royal, harasssonburg in virginia, 81 and 66 coming up soon. those thunderstorms will continue to move off toward the east. most likely passing to the south and west of the dc metro. 62 degrees on our tuesday. 61 on wednesday with another chance of rain. most likely in the morning. and then
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for drivers. pat collins is live on the scene to tell us what police discovered. pat? >> reporter: well, suspicious vehicles have a way of showing up in washington. and today about six blocks from the capitol, there was one here on maryland avenue, and for more than three hours, it created quite a stir. 6th and maryland avenue southwest, cops all over the place, blocking off streets. moving people out. a u-haul truck parked in front of the lyndon johnson education building. parked here since yesterday afternoon. very suspicious. and when a bomb dog alerted next to the truck, it got real suspicious. taylor buchanan was working outside when that happened. >> well, all we saw was showing up with the dog. the dog sat there and they told us to clear the area. everybody go to the other side of the building. >> reporter: on the scene comes a strange white truck. a special white truck. it does a slow circle around that u-haul. and then it does it again. and after that, it disappears. for tourists, this scene was a sight they didn't plan on seeing. >> what do you make of this? >> that was quite
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to celebrate women's history month. >>> outside right now, skies are gray but strong storms have missed us at this point. veronica johnson is in the storm center. >> it looks like the wacky weather hasn't missed us, there is even isolated sleet mainly to the north and west. we'll zoom in here. you can see there from wheaton to dale city lark plata, charles, stafford, too, that blue is where the light showers are. mainly off to the east of i-95 and around damascus. some light rain. right now in areas of northern carroll county of baltimore, we've saint already in northern frederick county. that pink has a little sleet. same thing off to the west around cumberland and kaiser toward petersburg. instead of the snow, even culpepper, too, a little sleet. if you have some sleet falling in your area, i want to hear about it. twitter. temperatures in the mid 40s so road surfaces are fine. we're not done. i'll have more coming up. >>> thanks. there's still no word on what started the fire that destroyed a gaithersburg house this morning. you can see the smoke billowing from a house. these are pictur
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. please tell us when it will cheer us up. >> it will cheer us up probably sometime this weekend. that's the good news. it does look like at least one day this weekend is going to be really nice. but we continue on this damp and dreary pattern. outside right now, we do have some rain making its way across the area. most of this very light rain, if not some drizzle across parts of the region. you can see it in frederick county, 270 and 70, we are seeing some of that rain. but also areas of drizzle that are not showing up right now. current temperature at the airport, only 42 degrees with winds out of the northeast at 10 miles per hour. that puts our wind chills in the 30s. it is definitely a chilly afternoon. look at the temperatures across the region. only 39 in hagerstown. 42 in sterling. 43 in manassas and 45 towards fredricksburg. the good news is, temperatures are going to be going up over the next couple of days. but there are still a lot of chances for rain, as well. i'll let you know when we break out of this pattern, if at all, coming up in my full forecast. >>> all right, doug
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and strictly, strictly monitor that individual for the protection of us all. >> reporter: you don't think that happened here. >> i don't. >> reporter: and you think it doesn't happen in a lot of cases? >> i think that there is a big lack in that system of supervision. >> reporter: mental health officials say they're reviewing this case. goodlett, he's being held without bond on the murder charges. wendy, back to you. >> all right. pat collins, thanks, pat. >>> we continue to follow that developing story tonight out of reagan national airport. two flights forced to land without any help from the airport control tower. the supervisor was asleep, and now he's been suspended. news4's chris gordon is live with new developments outside reagan national. chris? >> well, this just in. that air traffic controller was interviewed by the ntsb and has admitted he feel on sleep while on duty in the control tower, having worked his fourth consecutive overnight shift from 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. now, the faa says it is investigating to get to the bottom of the situation for the safety of the traveling pu

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